11DVC

Level 1 Design & Visual Communication

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Mr T. Mitchell.

Design and Visual Communication is about the interrelated strands of design thinking, visual communication, and design influences. 

Design thinking encompasses the ideation, exploration, progression, and communication of design ideas into potential outcomes that serve a specific purpose, provide innovative possibilities.

Within Design and Visual Communication, design consists of product design and spatial design.


Product design focuses on the development of tangible items that have a specific function within people’s everyday lives. 

Spatial design is about the designing of three-dimensional spaces in terms of how they are experienced, occupied, or used by people.

The aim is to stimulate self-confidence, self-esteem and a pride of achievement through enabling all students to achieve a high level of personal success in this subject.

Course Overview

Term 1
Students will develop product or spatial design ideas informed by the consideration of people. The consideration of people, encompasses connection to a place, that the context is
designed for, and keeping the possible users of the potential design outcome in mind.
Students will learn how to apply design principles and elements to their work. They will also explore the design process and how to use it in their design project.

Students will be able create physical models (such as hand built, 3D printed, laser cut), manual or digital rendered models (such as CAD packages), bubble diagrams, floor plans for spatial design, 2D and 3D sketches and drawings, section views, cross-sections, and elevations, rapid visualisation and/or drawing systems (isometric, oblique, planometric, orthographic, architectural, and perspective, etc).

Term 2
Students will use instrumental drawing techniques to communicate own product or spatial design outcome.
They will use CAD and 3D modelling software to present their final designs and creating orthographic (2D) and paraline (3D) drawings accurately, that visually communicate the construction or assembly features.

Term 3
Students will use representation techniques to visually communicate own product or spatial design outcome. CAD and 3D modelling software to present their final designs.
Students will learn refined techniques of how to make their drawings look real using colour tone and texture using hand-rendered presentation drawings, physical models (such as hand built, 3D printed, laser cut), rendered digital models (such as CAD packages), animations (such as flythroughs).

Term 4
Students will assemble their years work and present it in a portfolio for final marking.

Contributions and Equipment/Stationery

Year Eleven DVC Stationery List
Qty OfficeMax Code Description
3 2803615 A3 Warwick 17C9U Drawing Pad Refill 110gsm
2 1022598 Staedtler Traditional Graphite 2H pencil
2 1022849 Staedtler Traditional Graphite HB pencil
2 1022563 Staedtler Traditional Graphite 2B pencil
1 2899604 30cm Clear Plastic Ruler
1 2802449 Eraser
1 1312650 Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils or 24pkt
1 1157957 26cm 450 Set Square
1 1158066 26cm 600 Set Square
1 2810948 Faber-Castell compass set
1 12822520 A3 Art Carry Bag (recommended)
1 2855844 Circle Guide
1 2852101 Metric Ellipse Template
1 2800373 Clear File A3 refillable display book

Optional Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm with 2H leads
Mechanical Pencil 0.5mm with HB leads
Mechanical Pencil 0.7mm with HB leads
Staedtler fibre tip pens pkt 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7mm

Pathway

Design, Architecture, Engineering, Graphic Art, Graphic Designer, Computer Graphics, Building Industry, Boat Building – Design and Construction, Landscape industry, All the Trades.

Career Pathways

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

This course is eligible for subject endorsement.

Total Credits Available: 15
Internal Assessed Credits: 5
External Assessed Credits: 10
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 92001 v3
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 1.2 - Use representation techniques to visually communicate own product or spatial design outcome


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 92002 v3
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 1.3 - Develop product or spatial design ideas informed by the consideration of people


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 92003 v3
NZQA Info

Design and Visual Communication 1.4 - Use instrumental drawing techniques to communicate own product or spatial design outcome


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 15
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0